Come for free tuition — stay for the anti-Semitism.
Seems other lefty college students are jealous of the Yale and University of Missouri kids, so on Thursday they launched a Million Student March at 100-plus campuses.
On Fox News, one “Million” leader called for free tuition, a minimum-wage hike and cancellation of student debt (to be covered by new taxes on the 1 percent).
But the rally here at CUNY’s Hunter College came with an added, ugly twist, thanks to the NYC Students for Justice in Palestine.
In a Facebook post, NYC-SJP added an anti-Semitic spin. It blamed tuition costs on CUNY’s “Zionist administration” which “invests in Israeli companies, companies that support the Israeli occupation . . . and reproduces settler-colonial ideology throughout CUNY through Zionist content of education.”
Thought tuition was just about paying for a world-class education? Nope. It’s all part of a Zionist plot.
Yet CUNY’s leaders barely issued a peep. The university merely released a long can’t-we-all-get-along statement by the vice chancellor of student affairs:
“Students should also be cognizant of the efforts of a few to distract attention from important issues in higher education . . . by invoking discriminatory language reeking of thinly veiled bigotry, prejudice, anti-Semitism or other behavior inconsistent with our educational mission.”
It’s a start, but better for CUNY Chancellor James Milliken to hold a press conference slamming the hatemongers.
If Missouri has taught the nation anything in recent days, it’s that you don’t bring a knife to a social-justice gunfight.